.. Ross Patterson's Blog imported post, created by `$ ./bin/rfc822-to-post` on Mar 15, 2021.

.. meta::
   :description: Replacing ratpoison with StumpWM.
   :keywords: Plone, Zope

.. post:: Sep 11, 2011
   :tags: Plone, Zope
   :author: Ross Patterson
   :redirect:  @@redirect-to-uuid/2c9d3fc9-e60f-477f-8bca-b4c3998667ae

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Ratpoison is Dead, Long Live StumpWM
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    Replacing ratpoison with StumpWM.

This is definitely of those "Why did I wait so long?" moments.  I've been `using ratpoison <../ratpoison-under-gnome>`_ for quite a while.  From time to time I would research other keyboard-driven, `tiling window managers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager#List_of_tiling_window_managers_for_X>`_ so I'd heard of and evaluated StumpWM before.  Somehow I'd missed that it was *intended* as the successor to ratpoison.  Doh!

At any rate, thanks to a `Planet Emacsen blog post <http://www.rlazo.org/2011/09/10/stumpwm-my-new-window-manager/>`_ I decided to give it a try.  It's a clear win for me.  Better group manaagement, key binding system, and plays nicely with the Gnome/Unity-2D panel when I need it.  It's all around more modern and less of a fight with modern desktops like Gnome/Unity-2D.  I don't think I'll be going back as long as the instability everyone mentions is manageable.

.. update:: Sep 11, 2011

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